Abstract Quote by Roger Scruton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Conservatism is the politics of reality

— William F. Buckley, Jr

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not…

— Bill Moyers

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

— Charlie Sykes

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried

— Abraham Lincoln

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

— Shelby Steele

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.

— John Maynard Keynes

Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

— Sasha Velour

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

— Hillary Clinton